Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 09:51:06 -0500
From: Scott Kiesling
Subject: Re: She's All
This indeed seems to be a quatative similar to "she's like." It's been
parodied on Saturday Night Live in an ongoing skit about high school
girls working in a Gap store. In the parady, they tend to use it in
narratives.
In my current research on undergraduate life/language, I've not
encountered the quotative among either sex, suggesting that it is
limited to the 18-under group, that it is age-graded, or that it is
regional (I'm doing research in No. Virginia).
Scott Kiesling
Georgetown
skiesling[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu